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| 225108 | 2004-03-25 10:07:00 | Article! (www.nzherald.co.nz) Could be a $10 Million payout. Doesn't sound like quite enough. ;) Still waiting for the investigations of the faulty usage meter to pan out. That would hit them with another 20mil payout. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 225109 | 2004-03-25 10:21:00 | And in other news (www.nzherald.co.nz), Microsoft ordered to pay US$606 million fine for monopoly abuse. Wow this is 2 great strikes in one day, can we ask for anything better? |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 225110 | 2004-03-25 10:55:00 | ummm how bout a free copy of Longhorn for every F1'er and a free 2Mbps uncapped broadband connection for 1 year. That should compensate in the meantime for all the aggrevation that's been caused. :) cheers chiefnz |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 225111 | 2004-03-25 11:00:00 | I wouldnt mind a Big Mac and Fries..... ;-) Interesting Article about MS though..! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 225112 | 2004-03-25 11:13:00 | > ummm how bout a free copy of Longhorn for every F1'er Trust me, you dont want that... They have a lot of work to pull out of their asses between now and the 2008 release...! > and a free 2Mbps uncapped broadband connection for 1 > year. Now that I could do with :D ...Couldnt we all ;-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 225113 | 2004-03-25 11:36:00 | If Telecom get fined (for a 1998 issue), guess who pays in the end? Us. Either directly or indirectly as Telecom seek profitability from all aspects of their operation. It could be in staffing (we pay in tax for welfare) or in services provided (higher telephone network costs) etc. One way or the other, all these cost will trickle down. Where do you think the $ come from, the shareholders don't dip into their pockets... So I fail to get excited by such actions. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 225114 | 2004-03-25 11:55:00 | well no matter what,we will pay a premium for MS products,its not like they drop the prices when the banks overflowing. Maybe its meant to discourage futher acts of such a fashion? Isn't that what punishment for unlawful acts is all about? Now i know there are those of us who knock ms constantly,and those that think its a free market so let them be,but surely some must be able to see that when entire nations are handing out 600 million dollar fines to a company then maybe MS are indeed already far down a path that needs to be halted. |
metla (154) | ||
| 225115 | 2004-03-25 12:12:00 | > well no matter what,we will pay a premium for MS > products,its not like they drop the prices when the > banks overflowing. Speak for yourself ;-) > Maybe its meant to discourage futher acts of such a > fashion? Mmmm...... > Now i know there are those of us who knock ms > constantly,and those that think its a free market so > let them be,but surely some must be able to see that > when entire nations are handing out 600 million > dollar fines to a company then maybe MS are indeed > already far down a path that needs to be halted. They're a good company and have made some good products in their day, but their products need fixing up (WinXP for example) before they work on the next release (Longhorn). And stifiling the competition (RealNetworks, WinAmp) cant be good... I'd love to see Windows bundled with WinAmp! Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 225116 | 2004-03-25 12:18:00 | Personally i think WinXP and Office are excellent products,computing wouldn't be where it is without MS. However i am amazed at what they do to other companies,other technologies and their attempts to tie a personal users PC in with MS philosophy. |
metla (154) | ||
| 225117 | 2004-03-25 12:26:00 | (Sigh) And to think I let out a breath of relief on Tuesday night - after having heard the Microsoft news several times on RNZ during the afternoon & seen it twice on TVOne that night....all without anyone starting a jubilant anti-MS thread. By yesterday - when it was in all the newspapers - it was already getting to be old stuff. So where have you guys BEEN? Or is it just me who thinks news has to be new? (I ask this is the nicest possible way, of course. Smilingly with a rueful shake of the head...) Now you're going to tell me you're too busy on computers to listen & look elsewhere, aren't you? (Shakes head in sorrow, then barricades computer against arrows from North & South) |
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